I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

I'm a chick for sure.

In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.